Wellness

The evidence for sleep restriction changing how skin looks and heals is better than the evidence behind most of the shelf. It is also the hardest thing to sell.

The mask is not doing much. The ninety minutes of not looking at a screen while it sits on your face is doing a great deal, and that is a legitimate product.

We audited five readers' bathroom shelves against what each product was actually doing. The average was nine items and the average useful count was under three.

One person, one variable, and a camera in the same spot every morning. The results were real, smaller than expected, and not in the places anyone photographs.